Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Alsa compiling...

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Quoting Andrzej Odyniec <an...@ma...>:
> Dears,
>
> Alsa is probably not too often compiled. But I sometimes use ALSA for
> Asterisk. Attempt to compile alsa-utils fails:
>
>> init_sysdeps.c:22: error: static declaration of 'strlcpy' follows  
>> non-static declaration
>
> The explanation for this situation I found here:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/337937
>
> They wrote:
>> Currently, openrc strictly assumes that glibc won't export strlcpy(). This
>> means that if at some point glibc starts to supply this function, or an user
>> patches his glibc to do so (yes, I know nobody is going to support  
>> that), the
>> build is going to fail with 'static declaration of 'strlcpy'  
>> follows non-static
>> declaration' error.
>>
>> In my opinion, the correct programming practice here is to use real  
>> guessing to
>> determine whether a particular C library exports that function.
>
> Probably the last upgrade of glibc gave this effect.
>
> What do you think about this?

Is there a newer version available which fixes the issue?
I didn't see a fix in the bug report.

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Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
   http://www.devil-linux.org


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